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Curtis · 07-24-2006, 05:34 PM

Both of these are good. I have some scouting suggestions of my own:

1) The monthly quickscout from your minor league scouts is useless. On most of my teams, including those whose scouts have ratings of 140+, two thirds of the players get rated 70+ on the 'ready for the majors now' scale, and a third of those are rated as an 80. Obviously, this is ridiculous, and the fact that this rating is factored into the average of all scouts' ratings for that player means I have to subtract it back out and recalculate for everyone. Instead of a quickscout, minor league scouts should spend the first four or five days of each month doing a full team scout. After they complete that they would be available for other scouting duties IN THEIR LEAGUE (or only subleague, if no crossover games are allowed). They could do fullscouts of individual players on their own team or any team they play that month. They could do quickscouts of players on teams they face after the date when they finish their own team's report. They could do team scouts of teams in their league, or quickteamscouts of every team they play that month (after the date when they finish their own team's report). They could start a leaguescout, which would probably need to be interrupted (without losing effort accumulated). They should NOT be able to scout free agents or organizations, or do quickscouts of players on days when they're performing other assignments.

2) I believe ALL scouts should have lower values for their 'scout _potential' ratings than for their 'scout_' ratings. By this I mean that 'scout batting potential' should always be lower than 'scout batting', though it wouldn't have to be lower than 'scout pitching'. It's only common sense that nobody can do a better job of predicting how good someone will be than they can at telling how good he is now.

3) I like the ideas I've seen elsewhere in the forum about being able to assign a major league scout as an advance scout, though I'd never use that feature myself.

07-24-2006, 05:34 PM	#5
Curtis Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Watertown, New York Posts: 4,567	Both of these are good. I have some scouting suggestions of my own: 1) The monthly quickscout from your minor league scouts is useless. On most of my teams, including those whose scouts have ratings of 140+, two thirds of the players get rated 70+ on the 'ready for the majors now' scale, and a third of those are rated as an 80. Obviously, this is ridiculous, and the fact that this rating is factored into the average of all scouts' ratings for that player means I have to subtract it back out and recalculate for everyone. Instead of a quickscout, minor league scouts should spend the first four or five days of each month doing a full team scout. After they complete that they would be available for other scouting duties IN THEIR LEAGUE (or only subleague, if no crossover games are allowed). They could do fullscouts of individual players on their own team or any team they play that month. They could do quickscouts of players on teams they face after the date when they finish their own team's report. They could do team scouts of teams in their league, or quickteamscouts of every team they play that month (after the date when they finish their own team's report). They could start a leaguescout, which would probably need to be interrupted (without losing effort accumulated). They should NOT be able to scout free agents or organizations, or do quickscouts of players on days when they're performing other assignments. 2) I believe ALL scouts should have lower values for their 'scout _potential' ratings than for their 'scout_' ratings. By this I mean that 'scout batting potential' should always be lower than 'scout batting', though it wouldn't have to be lower than 'scout pitching'. It's only common sense that nobody can do a better job of predicting how good someone will be than they can at telling how good he is now. 3) I like the ideas I've seen elsewhere in the forum about being able to assign a major league scout as an advance scout, though I'd never use that feature myself.